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9780631193135

Executive Leadership A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631193135

  • ISBN10:

    0631193138

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-06-06
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

Strong managerial leadership is a major factor in competitiveness and effectiveness in business. Companies must establish a managerial organization structure that puts competent managerial leaders into suitable roles. The aim of this practical text is to provide a foundation for leadership at a down-to-earth and understandable level.

Author Biography

Elliott Jaques continues the development of his comprehensive theory-based system of organizational structure and managerial processes, based on more that 46 years of practical field work in industry and commerce, government and health services, in the Church of England and in the US Army. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Brunel University, England, and is Visiting Research Professor of Management Science at George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Stephen D. Clement has spent fifteen years in the field of leadership development in the US Army where he was instrumental in developing policy and doctrine for leadership training. He is currently the president of Organizational Design Inc, of Boerne, Texas, where he consults for international corporations as well as the US Army on applying organizational design principles.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Requisite Leadership - Managing Complexity
Preface
Special Acknowledgement
Acknowledgments
Concepts and Principles
The Demystification of Leadership
Human Nature at Work
Role Complexity and Task Complexity
Basic Concepts of Organizational Structure
Requisite Practices
Task Assigning Role Relationships (TARRs)
Managerial Leadership
Supervisory Leadership
Project Teams and Expert Leadership
Manager-Once-Removed (MOR) Leadership Accountability
Organizational Leadership
Managerial Leadership Development Program
Outline and Summary
Bibliography
Index
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